Optional Courses

AP/CMDS 1425 Youth, Media, and Culture

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of media produced and consumed by and for young people. Together we will consider how popular media such as television, film, digital media (including games, music, and social media), and print media shape the production, consumption, and representation of youth and youth cultures. Guided explicitly by […]

AP/CMDS 4708 6.0 Youth Cultures and Media Practices

This course analyzes contemporary youth cultures with an emphasis on the ways in which youth engage with diverse and converging media texts and practices. The course develops a contextual understanding of media literacy, identities, embodiments, subcultures, social networks and civic engagements within the lives of youth, analyzing media institutions and policies, consumer cultures, technologies as […]